History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Band 2Little, Brown, 1853 |
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affairs afterwards Aislabie answer appears Appendix became Bill Bishop Atterbury Bolingbroke Brodrick to Lord Carteret Chesterfield Court Coxe's Walpole death declared Duchess of Kendal Duke of Newcastle Duke of Wharton Earl Emperor England English favour Fleury foreign France French friends George Gibraltar Government Hanover Hist honour hopes Horace Walpole House of Commons House of Lords Inverness Jacobites James James's King King's Lady less letter Lockhart Lord Hervey Lord Midleton Lord Townshend Madame de Prie Madrid Majesty measure Memoirs ment Minister nation negotiations never object observed occasion Opposition Ostend Company Paris Parliament party passed persons Pope Pretender Prince proposed Pulteney Queen received resentment restoration Ripperda Royal says scarcely Schaub Scotland secret Secretary seems sent Session Sir Robert soon South Sea Company South Sea Scheme Spain Spanish Speech spirit Sunderland Swift talents temper thought tion Tories treaty treaty of Hanover Vienna Walpole's Whigs writes Wyndham
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Seite 145 - If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine— a friend— or being dry— Or lest we should be, by and by— Or any other reason why!
Seite 37 - Art thou the Christ ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you ye will not believe : and if I also ask you ye will not answer me, nor let me go.
Seite 64 - ... in good gold and silver, must be given for trash, that will not be worth above eight or nine thousand pounds real value.
Seite 244 - I say it with great regret, I have observed the Clergy in all "the places through which I have travelled — Papists, Lu"therans, Calvinists, and Dissenters ; but of them all , our " Clergy is much the most remiss in their labours in private, "and the least severe in their lives.
Seite 221 - There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago."— Spence's Anecdotes.
Seite 178 - the same proscribed man, surrounded with difficulties, exposed to mortifications, and unable to take any share in the service, but that which I have taken hitherto, and which, I think, you would not persuade me to take in the present state of things. My part is over, and he who remains on the stage after his part is over, deserves to be hissed off.
Seite 116 - And sensible soft melancholy. "Has she no faults then, (Envy says) Sir?" Yes, she has one, I must aver; When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear.
Seite 161 - I am certain it will be of great benefit to the revenue, and will tend to make London a free port, and by consequence, the market of the world.
Seite cxi - MY last letters from Berlin inform me that the King of Prussia had beaten the Princess Royal, his daughter, most unmercifully ; dragged her about the room by the hair, kicking her in the belly and breast, till her cries alarmed the officer of the guards, who came in. She keeps her bed of the bruises she received.
Seite 177 - ... to be most at enmity with his own; and if at any time it should happen to be for the interest of any of those foreign ministers to have a secret divulged to them, which might be highly prejudicial to his native country, as well as to all its friends ; suppose this foreign minister applying to him, and he answering, I 'will get it you, tell me but what you want, I will endeavour to procure it for you...